Improvement in cultivators



C. WELLS. Wheel Cultivator.

No. 86,262." Patented Jan. 26, 1869.

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Letters Patent No. 86,262, dated January 26, 1 869.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OARMI WELLS, of Sandwich, in the county of De Kalb, in the State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Cultivators and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this description, in which Figure l is a perspective representation of my invention, with the shovels removed to give a clear view of the construction of the other parts of" the device.

Figure 2, an elevation of one of the beams, with a shovel attached, and also a view of the devices by which it is raised and lowered.

Figure 3, any enlarged view of one of the shovels, also showing the device by which it is adjusted and held to the standard.

Figure 4, an enlarged section of the shovel and its attachments, taken through fig. 2, on the line 2, 2.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of cultivators-which are supported on wheels, and arranged for the operator either to ride or walk; and

. Its nature in part is as follows The arms of the axle are attached to clevises pivoted to an axle-beam, the upper part of the clevises terminating in levers, and projecting inward, and they are pivoted to a central T-lever, by means of which the cultivator can be con veniently guided by the operator, whether walking or riding; and a novel arrangement. for securing the shovels to the standards, and adjusting them to meet the requirements of different methods of cultivation.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, 1 have marked corresponding parts with similar letters, and will now give a detailed description. A, fig. 1, represents a wooden axle-beam, to which are rigidly attached braces 3B, which support the tongue A in the usual manner, and two strong wooden bars E E, which support the sheave-block T, and a seat, X. The arms of the axle are attached to the metal clevises D D, pivoted to the axle-beam A, at e e, the lower parts of the clevises bearing against the under side of the beam, and the iipper parts forming levers, which are pivoted to the ends of a T-lever, O, by means of nuts and bolts E E. Said bolts operating in slots f f,

.made through the levers, permit the clevises DD to have a partial revolution on the pivots e e, and thus turn the wheels D to the right or left, as the case may require, to guide the cultivator.

The T-lever O is made of metal, and pivoted to the axle-beam A,'at d, and the part, W, near the seat X, is used by the hand to swing the clevises D D, when the operator is riding, anda rod, U, is jointed to this part, W, at t, and it is used to swing the T-lever O and clevises D D, when the operator is walking in the rear of the seat X, said rod being long enough for this purpose, and arranged to turn over to the front, and rest on lever 0 when the operator is to ride, and thus be out of the way.

A sheave-block, T, is rigidly fastened to the tops of the bars E E, and it has pulleys in both of its ends, over which chains or ropes V V are made to pass, the inner ends of the chains being attached to a loop on the rod U, and their outer ends to stirrups S, pivoted to both sides of the bars E E, at 1'. this arrangement is to provide means for the operator to move the T-lever by the feet, when both hands are occupied in driving the team.

The beams G G are arranged to have a vertical reciprocatin g motion on guides 11 H, attached to a crosspiece, B, and guides F F attached tothe back side of the axle-beam A, and the beamsG are prevented from getting out of place, by means of metal loops m, pivoted to the axle-beam A, and passing around levers P, pivoted to the beams G, at c, fig. 2.

The levers P are used to raise the shovels out of the ground, by the feet, or if the latter are required on the stirrups S, the shovels can be raised by the lever Z, fig. 1, which is rigidlyattached to a rod, 0, jointed to the axle-beam A, and having its ends bent downward,

and bearing on thelevers P.

The shovels K are pivoted to the plates J, fig. 3, at a, which have slots 1 I through them, in order that nuts and bolts a may be used to hold the shovels in fixed positions, when adj usted to till the soil in a given manner, and these plates J have semicircular bearings L, cast solid to them, and made to fit the upper part of the standards H, figs. 2 and 4, and a ring or hook, I), with a bolt and screw-thread attached, is putover the outside of the bearing L, and between it and the shovel K, and it is made to clamp the latter firmly in place, by means of a saddle-washer, h, and nut, '5, same figure.

, This provision for giving the shovels a compound motion on the standards, permits their points to be set for simply stirring the ground, hilling rows, or to be used as a gopher-plow, the latter requiring the points of the shovels to be turned to one side far enough to bring their straight edges nearly parallel with the surface of the ground.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. The combination of the clevises D D, T-lever Q, axle-beam A, shovel-beams G G, standards M, and shovels K, as and for the purpose herein specified.-

2. The combination of the clevises D D, T-lever 0, rod U, chains V V, sheave-blocks T, bars E E, and stirrups S, as herein set forth.

3. The combination of the beams G G, standards M, levers P P, loop m, axle-beam A, and rod 0, arranged to adjust the shovels K in the ground,'substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the plates J bearings L, and shovels K, the latteg being arranged to turn on the pivots a, as set forth.

Witnesses:

Gno. L. GHAPIN, A. HAYWARD.

GARMI WELLS.

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